Thanks to the blockbuster 1988 civil racketeering (RICO) lawsuit brought by then Manhattan U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani, 1.4 million members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) have just received ballots so they can vote for a new General President.

Prior to the lawsuit, the IBT president and general...

Not so long ago, "liberal" U.S. opinion leaders felt firearms, at least handguns, could and should be banned in the United States. They did not regard the Second Amendment as a barrier to achieving this goal. In fact, they derided the Second Amendment as having nothing to do with an...